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,—....__ COURSE OF EXCHt Amsterdam C.F 12 7 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 0 U l2 7 Antwerp l2 6 Harnkmr , M.B 1314K, Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 fa Ditto ....... .............. 2 Us 25 90 Marseilles. Frankfort OR Maine, Ex. M 154 Petersbui gh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Berlin Vienna, effective tl 2 M. 10 12 Trieste ditto lO 12 Madrid 37 Cadiz 37 ... .NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn i 7 14 Genoa 25 95 Milan 3l Venice 47 Vaples 4ou, Palermo per oz. 122 U Lisbon 56 Oporto 56 Rio Janeiro 36 Y 4 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork l% PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin ...... ..E0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bar 5...... 3 17 9 New Doubloons ............ . 0 0 0 New Dollars ........ . ..... 4 10U Silver. bars, stan dard ...... Bilboa Barcelona q6 % Seville Gibraltar HIGII NV ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. N l "rning... ..... .37 minutes after 2 I Evening ......5R minutes after 2 HAMBURGH, MARCH 18, 1836. HEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS for the GREAT LOTTERIES Published and Drawn by authority, and under guarantee of the Hamburg State, beg to inform the Public that the SIXTY-EIGHTH LOTTERY of 10,000 Tickets will be drawn on the 23d of June next, and Tickets are now selling at bancomarks 108, or 8/. say Eight Poun ooo, ds, l sterling. The , Prizes are :- 1 of 100,000, 1 of 20,000, 1 of 15, of 10000, 1 of 8,000, 1 of 7,000, 1 of 6,000, 1 of 5,000, 10 of 1,000, 35 of 300, 36 of 165, 234 of 150, and 1,995 of 108 bancomarks; which 2,316 Money Prizes are altogether payable without any deduction what ever, and every holder of a Ticket coming up: one of the 2,000 first drawn Blanks will be entitled, after the fourth day of Drawing, to the receipt of two undrawn Tickets gratis, as per Scheme. Owing to the Gratis Tickets, the number of Tickets on Sale is a very limited one, so that of course they will be cleared off very rapidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to purchase at the present First Price of 8 1 ., are reques ted to direct by one of the first mails, but only for whole Tickets, to the above named Contractors, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg, who beg to de cline, as usual, English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket. To those remitting a 101. note, Heine Brothers will, on executing the order, send an order for the balance of 2/. by return of post. A full Scheme, and every desirable information being al ways sent with the Tickets ; those giving orders will only have to write a line ordering the Ticket or Tickets, adding the money, or an order for the same, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe receipt of the communications. Thous honouring Heine Brothers by purchasing, may depend on their strictest secrecy as to their taking a chance or getting a Prize, such ueing the undeviating rule of the old established and most lucky office. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 minutes past Three o'clock. 7 : • ~ t .a•a~~~~ ~~~ _~' ~''~,•.r .n2l+ LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1836. During . the portion of the Session of Parliament which has elapsed, there has been little but child's play going on in the House of Lords. The Commons have borne the whole brunt of the business. After the recess, however, the case will be a little altered, though not reversed. There will still be work in abundance for the Lower House to do, while the bitbetto dormant energies of the Peers will be called into activity. We trust it will be an activity of a different sort from that which they exhibited last Ses sion. There is no doubt that much of the opposition which the Lords made to the measures brought forward by Government, and 'passed by the Com mons, arose from the soreness which the ma jority felt at the victory achieved by the Li beral party in the displacement of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administration, and the consequent disap- pointmcnt of those golden hopes with which they ha heel: flatzering themselves, ever since the Right Hot Baronet assumed the reins of Government. It is pos sible, too, that they may have been influenced in the course they pursued, by the vain imagination that they should be able so to embarrass Lord MELBOURNE and his Colleagues, as to compel them to relinquish office. Whatever might be their motives. or their views, it is undeniable that the policy which they adopted was as injudicious as it was unsuccessful. The public busi ness was stopped, the public interest was sacrificed, and the indignation of the people was excited against the Peers, to a degree that threatened the very existence of the Order. This feeling is considerably abated, but it has by no means subsided. Will the Peers venture to rouse it ? We think they will not. They will, however, soon be put to the test. Among the first measures to which their attention will be directed after the recess stands the Irish Corporation Bill, a mea sure on which the mind of the country is set more than any other, and which cannot be rejected without violating the first principles of justice, and breaking asunder the bond that unites England, Ireland, and • Scotland in one kingdom, entitled to an equal participation in all rights and privileges. The Lords have seen the folly of running counter to popular sen timent. Let them beware of incurring further odium, by shuwing the people that they are determined not to consent to the reforms that the circumstances of the country and the spitit of the age demand. We have received the Wi;Ole of the French Journals ; of Wednesday. The Chamber of Deputies agreed to \ the vent for enahling the Archbishop of Bordeaux , M. D CtrEvENis, to assume the dignity of Cardi nal. Fled the Venerable Archbishop been a Mem ber of the English hierarchy, he would have no trouble in procuring two thousand pounds—the whole of the sum required to pay the expenses of assuming the purple. But " they order these things better in France." In fact nothing but the excellent Christian character of the Archbishop would have induced the Chamber to consent to his appointment, which, strange to say, the Protestants, to whom his piety had endeared him, were the most anxious to promote. The Arch bishop was truly the apostle of the poor, the friend of peace among all Christian sects, and in his life a living evidence of the sacredness of those truths which he taught to others. His elevation to the purple has, therefore, diffused a more general joy among the Pro testants than among the Catholics of France. The trial of BOIREA U and his accomplices, for an • attempt to kill the KING on the road to Neuilly, was continued on Tuesday, but no important disclosure was elicited. Much blame is attributed to M. SYLVESTRE, the President of the Court, whose mode of examining witnesses is much con demned. The fault, however, is not in the Presi dent, hut in the system. Nothing presents a more farcical appearance than a criminal trial in a French Court of Criminal Judicature. Judge, counsel, pri soner, all squabbling together ; so that a stranger, ig norant' of costume, would have some difficulty in de ciding who stood to society in the relation of the accused individual. The accounts from the North of Spain arc very contradictory. A rumour prevailed that General BERNEL LI, commanding the Foreign Legion of Algiers, had obtained a victory over two Carlist battalions. It was stated that the Carlists lost 130 men killed, and that 10 officers and 30 privates were made prisoners. The capture of so many officers and so few privates is rather a singular circumstance in the annals of regular warfare. PARIS, March 3.—The Journal du Havre of the 28th an nounces that the following news had been brought by a vessel from Brazil : The Republican party has become sufficiently powerful . in the west pr ov i nce o f Rio Grande to resist by arms the efforts of the Government. The Imperial troops sent ag ainst it have been defeat e d, an d obliged to re treat. This SUCCCS 3 has been followed by th e r i s i ng of the people en masse and the organi zation of a provincial Government, which immediately con voked a provincial Assembly, in order to lay before it the question of the separation of the province of Rio Grande from the empire of Brazil. The date of meeting of this Assembly is the 28th of November, and its determination is the declara tion of the independence of the province. The Government of the United States, their liberty, and example of the incre dible prosperity which they hold out to the world, seems to be the object of the Assembly, and the model which it means to follow. It has appointed a Committee which is to prepare and to present to the Assembly, as soon as possible, a scheme of a Con stitution. " The spirit of independence is rapidly spreading into the ad joining provinces. The Imperial Government is much alarmed, ------...-__ _ end is preparing a cons i derable force to endeavour to quash this insurrection, or at least to check its progress ; but no confidence is felt of its success." Dr. Bowring is again in Paris. This time his friends say nothing about the treaty of commerce to be negotiated. They say that he has come accompanied by Mr. Pringle, an engi neer, and Mr. Thomas, a banker, for the purpose of proposing t h e co nstruction of railroads between Paris, London, and Brussels, and to discuss the means of carrying this immense enterprise into effect. Dr. Bowring yesterday had an audience with M. Thiers, who, it is said, listened with approbation to the plan. Dr. Bowring will therefore go to Brussels. The line from Lon don to Dover is already traced, and before the present plan was formed, preparations had been made for a railroad between Paris and Brussels. It is said that it will be possible to travel from Paris to Brussels in 131 hours, and from London to Brussels in 11l hours.—Messager, March 30. ..: _ FRENCH FUNDS.-Pams Mao! 30. Five per Cents., 107 f. boc. 7 0c. 80c:tt 75c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 35c. '1 hrec per Cents., Slf. 50c. 55c. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,280 f. 2,282 f. 50c. 2,277 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 101 f. 30c. 40c. 50c. 45c. / Roman Five per Cents., 1031 104. Spanish Actives, 45 44%. Spanish Differes, 20 20%. Spanish Passives, 14% %%. Royal Spanish Loan, 34. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 104304%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 79X. Portuguese Three per Cents. 49306%. Haytian Loan, 390 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 45c.; money, -.f. C. Three months , paper, .-f. -c. ; money, 25 f. 30 c -1 ours Authenti2ue. Bouusx, THREE o'CLo' "' i The Rentes continue firm. The Three per Cents. have Pe t ' , a lone at 81f. 60c., but the price has since receded to 81m to :. sellers. The Spanish Active Stock opened briskly at 4. , but has since gone back to 44k. Business is very flat, particularly in the Spanish securities. QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 107 f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 81f. 50c. ; Five per Centi. Spanish, -; Three per Cents. Spanish, -; Cortes, -; Coupons, -; Gueb bards, -; Differes, 151 ; New Loan, - ; Actives, 441; Passives, 141; Ducats, 101 65 ; Romans , 104 ; Ped ros, 791. ; Belgians, 104 2 4 ; Dutch, ---f. -c. ; ' Haytians, 390 f. -c. ; Miguels, -; Brabant Bank, -; Belgian Bank, 181 ; Con tinuation, -c. ; New Differes, 201; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, -; Royal Loan, -. We have several accounts from Madrid, but none of them are of a later date than those received yester day. They all speak sanguinely of the prospects of the QUEEN, and the stability of the present Govern ment. In one of them we find it asserted that the Queen of SPAIN proposes to visit the seat of war in person, with a view to rouse the zeal of the Basque peasantry. This is also stated in the Moniteur ; but we look upon it as the revival of a fiction to the same effect which appeared in the Paris papers about five months ago. We have likewise received the copy of an Ad dress, signed and presented to the QUEEN by up wards of five hundred Grandees of Spain, entreating her MAJESTY not to withdraw her confidence from M. MENDIZABAL. This document is too long for insertion in the present crowded state of our columns ; but we will endeavour to select a few passages in which its entire purport is embodied :—" Your MAJESTY," urge the petitioners, " has placed your confidence and the direction of the reins of the Government in the hands of a manlbeloved within, and respected out of the Spanish nation, and in whom this same nation, in ac cord with your MAJESTY, proclaimed its confidence under the most critical circumstances. While a Mi nister, who will be judged by history, made parade of an impotent violence against a magnanimous nation, this nation withdrew itself from him, and, with drawing, disunited the ties which held the coun try and the Government together. This disunion, which mortally wounded our nationality, which was hailed tumultuously by the North, and threw con sternation into the south, was the scandal of Europe. But your Majesty, with the instinct of a parent and the foresight of a Queen, knew how to choose for your councillor that great man, who, accustomed to combat for liberty in other countries, was to combat for her again in that which gave him birth—in that which hailed him with enthusiasm—in that which will be-- come the vast theatre of his triumphs—and that in which he has to collect his brightest laurels. No one then disputed his elevation to power ; none of the for mer combatants bared his sword to conquer or subdue him ; all disappeared from the scene ; because only 112 felt a calm heart beating in the midst of tempests, and only he could offer to the Throne a steady hand in the the midst of trouble. Society then recovered its lost balance ; the throne became affirmed on its broad ; serenity and concord again appeared in our brightened horizon, and your Majesty could and did enjoy the spectacle of such unexpected happiness. Madam, only that which saved our liberty. yester day can save it to-day, before a fanatic faction triumph ing in our divisions amidst a divided nation. He only can save the Government who re-organized our divided country. He only can save the country who did so without, dictatorship in the midst of anarchy, and be cause he did so, save it, he is opposed by those who aim at dominion as their end, and disorganization as their means of attaining it. Our eyes, Madam, are not accustomed to look into futurity, but a presentiment tell us that if the present Cabinet were to disappear from the political surface, the future would be dark and melancholy. With the rumours of its dissolution are spread others which shake the firmest hearts and the calmest minds. It is said, and the same pe riodicals have talked of it, of the immediate pub lication of a code such as never has been proclaimed in Spain, without the sigh of a victim ascending to Heaven with the voice which proclaims it. Thus. Madam, the rumour of the fall of the Cabinet and of the dis::,olution of the State is the same ; the same are those who accuse the Ministry. They know well, Madam, that the present Cabinet, strong because it is supported by public opinion, and strong because it is supported by the laws, will be an invincible obstacle to the plans they meditate, and because they know, if they have sworn its extermination, and because the subscribers know it too, Madam, they raise their humble voice to your august throne, to beg of you that, listening propitiously to that voice, you will deign to preserve your confidence to the present Minis try, which in times of greater trouble and dif f iculty saved the cradle of your august daughter from perish na as well as the liberty of the Spanish nation." 239 Lord Elphinstone, who is to succeed the Right Hon. Sir J. Adams, as Governor of Madras, is in the army, and one of the Lords of the Bedchamber. Sir John, some months, ago, expressed his intention of returning to England to recruit his health, which has been impaired by the climate of the East Indies. CONSERVATIVE CLUB.—The Canterbury Con servatives held what they call a grand meeting on Friday evening last, for the purpose of congratulating each other on their narrow escape from the clutches of the law at the late Assizes. Some of the party, we are told, had the modesty to wear white rosettes, as emblematic of " Purity of Election !" —Kent Herald. At a general meeting of the members of the White haven Subscription Newsroom, held on Friday, a motion was made for discontinuing the renegade Times, and was only lost by a majority of two voices. The Morning Post was ordered by a majority of one. MR. HASTIE.—The newly-elected Member for Paisley, is the gentleman who was on the eve of presenting himself to the electors of Canterbury, when he was anticipated by the activity of Mr. Villiers. A French schooner was seen off Shoreham, ou Monday, with her colours hoisted, supposed to be in distress ; but the wind blowing hard from the South East, no boat could put to sea. TITLE OF THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF PERTH. —The preliminary point mooted by the Court of Justiciary, in the case with the Lord Advocate as to the transmission of pri soners from Dunfermline to Perth, regarding the legality of the Provost of Perth using the title of Lord, was disposed of on Saturday last, when it was fully recognised by the Court.— Perth Advertiser. Our Member, Lord Conyngham, has been engaged in endeavouring to obtain a mitigation of punishment in the case of Pryer, who was cast for death at the late Lent Assize for cutting and maiming—a petition in his behalf having been signed by the prosecutor, overseers, and other persons resident in the neighbourhood to which the criminal belongs. We regret to add, that his Lordship's exertions in the cause of mercy, have pr ove d unava ili ng, an d that P ryor an d J oy w ill, in all cTr crimes r ec o s b lbe a er b fg i o l yr i tmey this ihsoafv announcement e p p ai a d r the e to pe w n ila reachesilctyh P a t i yh e eer t oeythe belongedeoi f r ;respective refusedp_u bl e. to sign the petition, unscrupulously acknowledging that he ought to be hanged, and p re f err i ng that the wretched lad should be launched into eternity, with his sins unrepented of, rather than lend his aid in gaining time for so desirable an end. Is this Christian Charity ?—Kent Herald. On Friday last, the " old veteran fisherman," Joe Tolson, of Keswick, caught near a small island called Ling holm, in that lake, a large pike, weighing 19ilbs. Captu ring a pike of this magnitude, with fine tackle, which was i n this instance " spinning the minnow with single gut," is by experienced fishermen allowed to be a feat of no ordinary im portance. TICE SUN, LON DO l l, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1836 MA AY. BLACKWOOI; S MAGAZINE. This, bating its politics, is an admirable Number. But how injudicious is the wholesale abuse of Dr. Hampden in the first article, when the Rev. Professor's defence of his theological tenets has only just appeared in print, and been received with the greatest approba tion, even by those who were previously most inclined to doubt his orthodoxy ! " Sampayo, the Contractor is full of agreeable incident and anecdote, respecting one of the most singular pounds-shilling-and-pence gen tlemen of the present day. In the " State of Protes tantism in France," the author observes that this creed is making slow but sure progress in that country ; and in cursorily alluding to the present state of French li terature, adds," the new literature of the country, instead of speaking out in the calm; polished, ironical, self-satis fied tone of the classic time, breathes the feverish ar dour of a distempered heart ; a wild fire runs through it ; profound but turbid emotions well up from its fountains ; and even in its most impious and impure specimens, is mingled a strain of what shall I call it ?—not religious sentiment, but reli gious torment. Never do I read a modern French book, without feeling at once that it is the production of a very troubled mind." There is considerable truth in these observations, which we suspect have imme diate reference to the late popular productions of Victor Hugo, and his imitators, whose name is Legion. " Job Pippins, the Man who could'nt help it," is the best of Mr. Jerrold's clever tales we have yet seen. The flow of incident is rapid to a degree, though here and there, the natural is perhaps too much lost sight of. " Fanny Fairfield" is the conclusion of a very sweet and unpretending tale under this title ; and the " Unbidden Guest," an attempt, and not an unsuc cessful one, to inculcate a useful moral through the medium of the fancy. We have no space for extracts. FRA SER' S MA GA ZlNE.—Fraser, Regent-street. Happen what may in the worlds of science, liters• ture, politics, religion, and fiddlesticks—the greates world of them all—we are sure to, find something to delight us in Fraser. If all else i pe above or below Or beyond our comprehension, we have at least a portrait to - look at, in itself worth a dozen of common-place, twaddling articles. The embellishment for the present month represents Mr. Francis Place, author of the " Principles of Population," more noted for his Mal thusian politics than his tailoring, sitting in an attitude of profound thought, and apparently labouring hard to digest the leading article of the Examiner, which lies on a table at his left hand. The likeness is excellent. In truth, we never saw a better in our lives—counte nance, dress, attitude, every thing. Of the biographical sketch that accompanies it we have not a word to say. The opening article, on Cowley and his Contempo• raries, is admirable. The following letter, though rather long, is so beautifully descriptive of the last days of Ben Jonson, that we ar• tempted to quote it entire : TO MR. WILLIAM HERVEY, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO BEN JONSON, A SKETCH OF CARTWRIGHT, AND ♦ NOTICE OF THE " SAD SHEPHERD." " Dear Will,—Rejoice with me, rejoice with me—l have seen Ben l Once, indeed, when I was a young scholar at Westminster, I remember to have caught a glimpse of the festive meeting at St. Dunstan's ; and even now the shouts of merriment that shook the walls, as the Canary went round, ring in my ears; but the scene itself has faded from my mind. My delight, therefore, was unbounded when Mr. C—, a close friend and admirer of the poet, offered to take me with him to his lodgings in Westminster, on last Friday. He is now confined entirely to his apartments, rarely wandering further than from his bed to his studying chair, which is of straw, and covered with a cloth wrapper, such as the old country wives use. We found him wrapped in a large and loose great coat, with slits under the arms, like those we have often seen at Newmarket. His first appearance disappoints the reader of the Alchymist. His face, once, as I have been told, very fair and beautiful, is now roughened, as it were, by a scorbutic eruption, to which he has been long subject. His eyes are rather grave and thoughtful than bright, and one seemed to me somewhat bigger than the other. Still, there is great power in the weight of the brows, the massive depth of the forehead, and the general severity and antique air of the features. Indeed, Mr. C— informs me that he is thought by his friends to bear a very striking resemblance to the head of the Greek poet Menander, as engraved on old medals , . His recent sickness leas made him more feeble than usual ; and it was only in the last week that he had a narrow escape from hurning—a spark from his charcoal lire having ignited the curtains of his bed. Our conversation turned upon the Muses, and he spoke, as his custom is, with great admiration a Donne, repeating from the ' Calm' two lines, which he said were admirably descriptive of unbroken stillness : , In the same place lay Feathers and dust—to-day and yesterday.' friend Donne,' he said, will perish through the ignorance of his readers; his orac:es require an interpreter.' Of Daniel, he szid that he wanted force and imagination ; that his muse had the silver wings of a dove, but none of the ma jestic stren;;th of the eagle. I happened that morning to have bz..en read:ng Daniel's Triumph of Hymen, and I ventured to say that the lines in which he pour tra y cd the growth of love between two children appeared to me exceed ingly beautiful. Ben turned his heavy eyes full upon me, saying, Let me hear them, young man.' You may be sure that I felt a little disconcerted at such a command. How ever, I managed to get through with one or tvo mistakes. Here are the lines ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was The flame we felt ; when, as we sat and sighed, And looked upon each other, and conceiver Not what we ailed, yet something we did ail; And yet were well, and yet were not well, And what was our disease we could not tell. Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look ; and thus, In that first garden of our simpleness, We spent our childhood. But when years began To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah ! how then Would she, with graver looks, with stern sweet brow, Check my presumption, and my forwardness ; Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show What she would have me, yet not have me know.' " Ben listened with attention, saying, when I had concluded, That passage is certainly very sweet and tender ; but, after all, Daniel was nothing but a verser. He had great art and ingenuity, as he hath testified in the verses you have recited, which were evidently suggested by that part of the Romance by Longus, where he describes the sensations of Chloe and Daphnis.' While speaking he reached down a sumptuous edition of this beautiful story, and immediately turned to the passage. " Mr. C inquired into his present employment. Tak ing up a small MS. beautifully written, he said, The muse bath not entirely forsaken me in this the winter of my age and fortunes.' The tears rushed into my eyes as I looked upon him, and my companion was not less affected. And yet,' he added, I ought not to complain that she who hath proved so good a handmaid to me during my earlier years, when the eyes of youth were full, and the veins burning with passion, should still keep me from high thoughts in the closing days of my pilgrimage, when every turn of the path is likely to bring me within sight of the celestial city.' The poem, he told us, was entitled the Sad Shepherd.' It is a pastoral drama, and, when finished, will endure a comparison with the exqui site composition of Fletcher. Thus much I can say of it from the few passages which Ben read to us ; two of them I tran scribed, and now enclose to you. The first is from the open ing lamentation of the Sad Shepherd, who thus bewails his lost love Here she was wont to go,—and here ! and here ! and here Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets, grow; The world may find the spring by following her; For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-bell from its stalk; But like the soft west wind she shot along. And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.' The last line is an improvement on a verse of Persius, a writer of whom Ben is very fond, and whom he pronounces the greatest of Roman satirists. Quicquid calcaverit, hic rosa fiat.' The following verses will remind you of the death of Adonis, in the lovely elegy of Bion. A spring now she is dead lof what ? Of thorns, Briars, and br ambles ? thistles, burs, and docks? Cold hemlock, yew ? the mandrake, or the box ? gs upon me These may grow still ; but what can grow beside ? Did not the whole earth sicken when she died ? As if there since did fall one drop of dew But what was wept for her ! or any stalk Did bear a flower, or any branch a bloom After her wreath was made In faith, in faith, Who had her very being and her name With the first knots or buddings of the spring, N Y v o h u i c d h o c n a o u t f u a i u r u t o s u p r t u t b t e h e E s i e u r t n i e n t Born with the primrose, or the violet, Or earlier roses blown 1 when Cupid smiled, And Venus led the Graces out to dance, And all the flowers and sweets in Nature's lap Leaped out, and made their solemn conjuration To last but while she lived " I must not forget to speak of Ben's reading,_it i s deli cious. Never was poetry married to more ex quisite music. His voice is deep, solemn , and harmonious ; hi s accent and emphasis learned and prec ise, without p edantr y. We may apply to him the eulogy he gav e us of his f riend, Lord Vern lam—that the hearer is afraid to cough or look aside from him, and that our only fear is lest he should make an end. While he was reading, the door of the chamber slowly opene d , an d a closing the door with finger to keep young man of a pale and thoughtful aspect, and f u ll o f sweet ngeressat and caution, beauty, and crept motioning i t o the t uu room, s with silent. When Jonson had finished, he went up to him, in quiring after his health with peculiar affection, and saluting him with the title of father, while the poet, warmly grasping his hand, replied, briefly, Better, my son The stranger was Mr. Cartwright, a familiar of Ben's, and one of the first wits of the time. The venerable and decrepit form of the illus trious poet, contrasted with the slight frame and animated fea tures of his young admirer, affected me strangely. I looked upon him as the literary patriarch of the age, and thought how happy I should be to be numbered among his ' sons.' These fancies were passing through my mind, when the arrival ut of the Bishop of Winchester, who frequently visits th e p oet, pan end to my dreams. We parted, with a warm invitation to repeat our call. The carrier allows me time only to write my name under this hasty scrawl, and to remind you that a word from his silent friend will gratify, ‘' A. COWLEY." Of the other articles, and they are both numerous and well written, we have no space to introduce so much as a passing observation. We thank Fr aser for an able review of the plays of Mr. Sheridan Knowles, who, by the way, is richly deserving of all the good things that have been said of him, both here and in the New World. Mr. Hume will find something in a paper entitled " What is the Use of a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ?" well worthy of his attention. We believe that it is now twelve years since the Hon Member for Middlesex moved the abolition of the Vice-regal office in Ireland. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.—CoIburn . There is more than the usual variety in this Number, which contains, among other amusing articles, one of the most amusing we have met with for some time. It is entitled a " Letter from the Chimpanzee," in which that interesting and respectable individual recounts some of his recent adventures in a style of piquant sarcasm. We take for granted that Mr. Theodore Hook is the author of this delightful paper ; first, from its political bearing ; secondly, from the arch and easy humour that pervades it. We quote an extract from this little jeux d'esprit : " I am sure you will forgive my devoting a few lines of my address to you, to the memory of my poor mother, who lost her life in endeavouring to secure her child's liberty. She was an excellent parent, and if not so well educated as myself, one of the most amiable of Troglodytes—she was mild, gentle, amiable, four feet six inches high, and a pattern for her sex. " Her, Sir, the worthy gentlemen who were anxious to se cure me for the advancement of knowledge in natural history, shot. I never shall forget that hour. Devotedly attached to me, she endeavoured to carry me as fast as she could to a little place we had about a mile from where we met the men who afterwards became my masters ; and when they fired at her in order to make her stop, she threw me be hind her, and faced our enemies, who, finding her too swift of foot for them, fired again, and shot her in the breast. Her piercing cries still wring in my cars. I did not then know what a gun was, nor did she, and in hopes to extract the deadly ball which had taken effect, my wretched parent, while clasping me with one hand, aggravated her misery by tearing open the wound with the other. One of the scientific gentle men, however, was kind enough, with the humanity and consi deration that become a Christian and a philosopher, to knock her respected brains out with the butt end of his gun, and seize me by the legs,—l being at that time, as one of your drama tists writes, " young and sore afraid,"—and thrust me into a sack which an attendant zoologist kindly held ready to secure me. " My father I never knew ; he deserted my mother very soon after I was born. She described him to me as a very fine crea ture distantly connected with the Pongo family, but of a roving, restless disposition. I have heard—how true it is I cannot say —that he is still alive, and, having gone to North America, is now a member of Congress in the United States ; others tell me that he is astipendiary magistrate in Jamaica ; while some gentle:nen, whom I have seen since I have been here, assure me that he died in England, ambassador from the Queen of Portugal to the Court of St. James's. Of course lam unable to decide, but this I know, that from all I have heard of his na tural talents, and from all I see of the power of education, as well as the very little intellect required to go a great way, he may, for all I know, have been a lord chancellor or a cabinet minister, although, not having a tail to recommend him, I do not presume to say he ever arrived at such dignities. " Well, Sir, after I had seen the last of my poor mother—l was spared the misery of beholding her death, by the urbane attention of the scientific gentleman who poked me into the bag—l was carried about one hundred and twenty miles to the coast. Perhaps, Sir, you never travelled so far in a sack. It was the longest excursion I had ever made, and although I duly appreciated the tenderness and humanity of my mother's murderers, I can assure you nothing in a hot climate can be more disagreeable. Everything, as the Trogs say, " must have an end ;" so had my journey ; and I assure you when my masters delivered me over to the care of Captain Wood, I felt more happy than under the circumstances I could have been expected to feel." The " Romance of Law" is evidently the produc tion of one skilled in the technicalities of the profes sion. It is a useful paper, but something dry, which, however, is necessarily consequent on the nature of the subject. " Letters from the South" are a continua tion of Mr. Campbell's Algerine Papers, and contain one highly interesting passage—that, we mean, where the author talks of the coral insect, and the formation of coral islands. THE MONTHLY M.AGAZlNE.—Slierwood and Co. There are two interesting, articles in this Number— " Anecdotes of Napoleon," and " Recollections of S'r Walter Scott." The others are readable, rather from their brevity than their intrinsic excellence. We are told in a Note to Correspondents that a " Great accession of literary talent has been secured for the Old Monthly." We are glad of this, as latterly there has been a great dearth of that necessary commodity. The literary notices are better written than the mote original articles. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Simpkin and Marshall. The third portrait in the " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen" is that of Dr. Berkley, the celebrated Bishop of Cloyne. The hand of the master is visible in every touch ; and, though a question may arise as to the cor rectness of the likeness, there can be none as regards the intrinsic excellence of the picture, considered merely as a work of art. It has none of the faults which we pointed out in the portrait of Goldsmith—faults which, in justice to the editor, we must allow were not exhi bited in the sketch of Grattan. If we are to have a " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen"—and none will hail with more sincere pleasure the opening of such an exhibition than will the Principals of this Journal—let it be such an one as will gladden every Irishman's heart. A spirit of partizanship is incompatible with the performance of so great—so patriotic an undertak ing. We desire to see the memory of the great and good—and such there ha*e been of every class, civil and religious—cherished with respect, if not with ve neration. In the portraiture of the Irish Hierarchy we would as soon think of rejecting Berkley, King, Usher, and Magee, as we would of omitting such names as Doyle, and several other eminent divines of the Catholic Church. The portraits of Grattan and Berkley are all that we would or could desire. We only ask that those which are forthcoming may have equal claims upon the praise of all impartial critics. We have been much pleased with the opening ar ticle on the " State of the Irish Poor." Of course we make large allowances for bigotry and intolerance. These are necessary ingredients in. every Conservative remedy for the ills of the Catholic peasantry, and therefore we have resolved for peace's sake to pass them over as lightly as possible. The article on Machiavel, the Florentine historian, " illustrated by a page in the Contemporary History of Ireland," is too laboured, prosy, and common place. There are two other articles of a similar character—one a sort of post mortem de fence of defunct Orangeism, of which we are promised the speedy resurrection, and the other a rigmarole es say on the Irish Corporations. We will trouble our head with neither of these effusions. On the whole, this Number is not equal to the last. The articles are neither numerous, varied, nor sufficiently amusing. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. In an article under the head of " Recollections of the British Army," there is a whimsical account of the expedients to which this co untry had recourse a t the time of the memorable pan ic, when it was threatened with an invasion by Buonaparte. " Orders were sent round to drive and lay waste all the country where the enemy might land ; all kinds of vehicles were to be in requisition for the transport of the f ew t roops to be had. Because one of our ships had been beaten off by a circular tower in Sardinia, martello-towers became all the fashion ; the coast of Kent, and even parts of the shores of Ireland, were studded with these gems of the s ea ,' an d t h e y s t a nd there now, monume nts of the panic of the times. Im mense sums were expended on the heights of Dover and the lines of Chatham,—as if an enemy was bound by contract to march on London by that route, when he could, as the Irish man says, come up " fair and airy " by the Maidstone road. A canal was dug from Hythe to Rye, which cos t 500,0001., and the lives of many of the Lincoln militia, who were sta tioned there under the impression that they were ' mud-larks' by profession ; and when this magnificent specimen of inland n avigation, running parallel with the sea was finished, no one could discover its use ;—an officer of engineers, who had been employed in the construction, and was hard pressed on this point, said it would serve as a ditch and defence in case of an enemy landing on the beach beyond it; an officer of the Rifles who was present, offered a bet that he would hop across it with his feet tied together; it also remains, and serves to convey soldiers' baggage from Hythe to Rye, and for the officers to skate on in winter." These " Recollections" will furnish capital club reading, as they are light, sketchy, and anecdotal ; and are evidently the result of personal experience, instead of being the mere " idle coinage of the brain." " The Indian Army" is full of serviceable statistic particulars, respecting the amount and quality cf our military force in the East ; it will, however, we fear, be read with in terest only by professional men. " Hints to Parlia ment on Discipline and Distinctions in the Army," will supply thats taunch Reformer, Sir W. Molesworth, with some valuable hints, when he next alludes to the subject in the House of Commons. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Allen and Co. Few publications are conducted with greater care, and minute attention, than the " Asiatic Journal." We cannot say that it is too exclusively Oriental, as the range over which it extends is all but unbounded. Still the original articles are very few, and some of them are wanting in fire. We acknowledge the great difficulty of delineating correctly the manners and cus toms of the Asiatic tribes, and at the same time corn ing up to that standard of quaint gorgeousness, in point of style, for which every reader looks in descrip tions of Oriental life. Many causes operate power fully to limit the number of able writers on subjects connected with India. The most obvious is that to become acquainted with the habits of the Indian tribes, so as to write well about them, one must visit the country ; and to remain in it for a sufficient length of time is to destroy the very powers necessary for the able performance of such a work. We know, and acknowledge with gratitude, that there have been many distinguished exceptions to this rule. But what of that ? We are dealing with difficulties, not with im possibilities. The " Mutiny of Vellore" might be made the groundwork of one of the finest Oriental Romances in the language. In its present form it is related so coldly as almost to be repulsive. " Hutchinson on Indian Jails," is a most interesting and instructive paper. We recommend it to general perusal. The following account of the priesthood of a sect of Hindu schismatics, established about one hundred years ago, and calling themselves Ramsanehi, or Friends of God, may be perused with advantage by the Lordly Hierar chy of " the most immaculate of Christian Churches, both in the purity of her doctrine, and in the strictness of her discipline I" " Priests are called either Byragi or Sadh, and are divided into three classes, the two last of which, denominated Bedeld and Mohani, I shall notice presently. They are enjoined to study the holy writings, and to disclaim all merit in their works : to observe celibacy, chastity, humility, abstinence, and content ment : to put a restraint upon the tongue : to sleep little : to accustom the body to hardships and fatigue : and to exercise charity, humility, and mercy. Anger, broils, avarice, selfish ness, usury, gaming, lying, theft, lust, hypocrisy, and all kinds of luxuries, are strongly denounced. Priests are commanded never to look at their face in a glass, nor to use snuff, perfumes, or ornaments, as such things savour of vanity : to go bare footed, and on no account to rid e on an y kind of conveyance : never to destroy anything animate, nor to live in solitude, nor to ask or receive money. Dancing, music, and other frivolous amusements, are forbidden, and to taste of tobacco, opium, and all intoxicating drugs and spirits. They are not permitted to prepare medicines, but do not object to receive them in time of sickness at the hand of a stranger. " It was a maxim of Ramcharan, that woman and gold, in the present vicious state of society, were the principal sources of mischief in the world : he therefore enacted a strict ordi nance for priests to shun both of them. The founder, a married man without a family, set the example of putting away his wife ; and this sacrifice, with the desertion of one's chil dren, are essential to obtain admission to the order : but the families of these Byragis are, I believe, in all cases comfort ably provided for. So strictly is the rule of continence en forced, that a priest is only permitted to converse with females on matters connected with religion ; the smallest approach to levity would involve the dismissal of the culprit. " Gold is supposed to beget avarice, and to accept of it de stroys the integrity of all previous acts of piety and virtue. • The touch of gold,' said Narayan Dias, is a lure to sin, and marriage is prohibited to ecclesiastics (not to the laity), because the cares of a family would interfere materially with their holy meditations. The heart should be fixed on one alone (God) ; he who places his affections on anything mor tal, ceases to be a Byragi.' It is related, in example of the little value set on lucre by the Ramsanehis, that a man pre sented Dulha Ram, on some occasion, with a philosopher's stone, which the sage received in silence, and cast into a well. The author of the gift, indignant at the contempt shown to his offering, preferred a complaint to the Raja of Shahpura, who asked the superior the motive of his conduct. The man having acknowledged he bestowed away the stone, the Mahant en quired how he could in reason complain of the loss of what did not belong to him.—' Your motive,' said Dulha Ram, in pre senting the stone, was to tempt me to evil; but I covet not gold, nor is the transmutation of metals fitting employment for a mendicant; take ye twenty rupees, and begone.' " A Byragi, convicted of receiving money, is branded on the forehead with a metal coin, heated for the purpose, and ejected from the community. Yet this interdiction, however strict, must be regarded as nominal, since lay followers receive money for the use of the order—and two Banias of the sect, residing in Shahpura, arc appointed expressly to receive remittances, lend out money, and carry on trade, on account of the holy fraternity. " A woman may become a priestess, as in the instance of Sarup, a devoted adherent of Ramcharan, by abondoning her husband and offspring, and by conforming strictly to chastity and other statutes. Females are forbidden, under pain of chastisement and excommunication, to approach places of wor ship after dusk, as they form the residence of the priesthood : it is considered prudent to guard them from temptation, although they are supposed to have acquired absolute control over the passions and all unlawful desires, before they are ad mitted to the sect. The sexes sit apart in the temples, and never sing together. " In regard of the injunction to sleep little, and to follow habits of industry, they say there is enough of sleep in the grave ; life is evanescent, and of too much value to be passed in repose ; and by wasting the precious hours in slumber, man degrades himself to an equality with the brute. Their aliment is poor, and taken sparingly, because abstinence induces watch. fulness, while a surfeit of food and sleep makes the soul heavy. Priests reside away from the habitations of man, as the turmoil of cities would interrupt their meditations ; but they are at the same time commanded to live together, to correct the foibles and relieve the gloom of each other. ' A solitary lamp,' added the chief, however brilliant, casteth a shadow beneath it— ' place another lamp in the apartment, and the darkness of both is dissipated.' " The priest changes his name on admission to the order, to denote that he enters into a new state of life, and the hair of his face and head (with exception to a small tuft on the crown) is shaved close ; there are several barbers in the esta blishment, whose business is to perform this office ; they are wealthy, and receive occasionally valuable presents. I heard of a Charon, who, in a fit of liberality, presented five hundred rupees to one of them. The only covering worn by the Sadh is a cotton cloth, of coarse texture, seven feet and a half long, with a small piece for a waist-band, and another for a percola ter, water being always strained before it is used for culinary or other purposes, to guard against the destruction of animal culm. The sheet is coloured with Giru, a kind of red ochre, emblematical of humility ; they add a second in the winter season, and sometimes a third, when, if warmth be not ob tained, they throw off all clothing, to mortify feeling, dis daining, as they express it, to be overcome by the wintry ele ments. This sheet is brought over the head, and forms its only covering ; but woollen cloth of similar dimensions is sometimes substituted for cotton, in the cold months. They all go bare-footed, and never ride on any description of ani mal or wheeled conveyance. " A perpendicular mark of white clay, called Sirt, im printed on the forehead, is a distinguishing symbol of the sect, denoting belief in the unity of God, and they have a rosary of small beads used in prayer about their necks. Metal uten sils are proscribed. The Sadh drink from wooden goblets, and eat off stone, china, and earthenware; the latter, it is well known, are forbidden to orthodox Hindoos. They abstain from animal food, and what is singular, considering the extraordinary anxiety shown to provide for the safety of insects, partake of nothing unsubdued by fire, fruits and vegetables not excepted. They have no objection to touch the element, but refrain from preparing their own food : thus, it should seem, however fear ful themselves to incur the deadly sin of robbing a creature of life, they do not view the act in others with the same anti pathy. Even the most loathsome vermin are held sacred : whenever a Ramsanehi kindles a light, he covers it with a shade, and lamps are excluded from the temples, from an ap prehension they may lure insects to destruction. Influenced by a similar feeling, the priests look on the ground before they walk, and never move out of doors, except on very urgent business, during four months in the year, or from the middle of Asarh * to the middle of Kartik : the insect population being most active in the wet months, they fear to crush them under foot in passing through the rank vegetation, and, should they be on a journey, halt, with reference to situation, till the season is over." * July, August, September, and October. THE LONDON AND EDINBURGH PH SOPHICAL MAGAZINE, No. 47. Richard Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street. In the present Number of this valuable journal, we observe a paper by Mr. Schweitzer, on the frequent pre sence of lead in English chemical preparatious, which claims the serious attention of chemists and medical men, as well as that of the public in general. Various earthy and alkali salts, constantly used in the healing art, are stated often to c ontain above two parts in a thousand of the corresponding salt of lead. This impurity partly a rises from the use of leaden ves sels in the manufacture of these salts ; but another and perhaps, upon the whole, a more dangerous cause is the action of various chemical re-agents upon the common white glass, in which chemical and phar- , m aceutical preparations are generally kept, and 7hic !It readily gives up to them a portion of the lead whichant it contains. Mr. Barlow's " Remarks on Lieuten Lecount's Treatise on Iron Rails" is also a paper of Te great importance in reference to the useful Arts. author demonstrates very clearly, and with great eod humour, that Mr. Lecount's statemen ts in his critique on . Mr. B.'s Rail-road Reports are without founds' Lion, and have proceeded from an entire and rather lu dicrous misunderstanding of the tables which he at tempted to criticise. THE SPORTSMAN, AND VETERINARY RECORDER. This periodical improves apace. The presen t Number is far superior to that whic h immediately pre ceded it ; and the Number for F ebruar y was unques" tionably better than the Number for December. We can, therefore, with a safe conscience, recommend it to all Sportsmen. The embellishments for this month are three Pointers, grouped together from a design bY Johnson. Several of the articles a re full of archness! and all display a most intimate acq fi e ld uaintance w ith sports. THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. This is an excellent`Number. The articles, though not more ably written than usual , are more varus io ni their character, and will therefore afford more satisfac • tion to the general reader. There is an ample and is teresting account of Dissenting proceedings during the last month, the most remarkable of which is the withdrawment of the Presbyterians from the tvvo other Dissenting Bodies—a transaction which the Record a high Church Evangelical Newspaper, says reflects great credit on the Piesbyterians, whatever it does on their late associates. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE, In addition to much agricu ltural matter of average quality, contains a copious supply of letters, speeches' plans, &c., relating to the Tithe Question, wich now the engrossing topic among t he proprieto h rs an cultivators of land. TRUE TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY' AS RELATED BY THEMSELVES• Tait, Edinburgh. Ireland owes much to the patriotic exertions of gri Tait, in every cause connected with the maintenanc % the civil and religious liberty of her people. -1% seems to have made her the country of his adoptl°n; and we are bound to acknowledge that few of her r n take so much trouble to effect her regener at '%; Wherever there is an abuse, there Mr. Tait is to e, found labouring to expose and eradicate it. Th e i: P h r e a sent publication is 'a selection by that accon l P,, s- o r writer, Mrs. Johnstgrid, from the report of the O a t Law Commissioners,. with a view of making the re nt' condition of the Irish poor known to every Pe rs ce , in the United Kingdom. The co st is onl y sixPelied and the profits resulting from the sale are to be aPr iere to purposes of charity connected with Ireland. tn, is indeed an instance of pure , dis interested patriotis DIORAMA. We attended yesterday a private view of this ri ) ":" bition, which, in addition to the well-known paintl.% of the Interior of the Church of Santa Croce, containe an additional one, illustrative of a little Swiss Vi lla % among the Savoy Alps, before, and after the fall of 5 _ avalanche. So far as truth of representation have . never seen, not even at the Diorama, a er• striking painting than this. The reach of pi le spective is most extraordinary ; and the aspect ' lf .;„e snow-crowned mountains, with the one solitary CO in front, from whose wooden roof the icicles are h°'. c if ) , ing in glittering clusters, is so naturally and /1 1 it y, pourtrayed, as to give all the appearance of re a p, The painter of this cliff d'ceuvre is, we believe' 3p Bouton, who has exceeded all his former effort, this favourite style of art. goes, ; THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY). —....—_ CITY, TWELVE O'CLOO.th Our arrivals this morning are the French MOS , Wi .: ‘ , ship letters from Sydney and Lima. We have like"- Charleston papers to the 6th of March. Accounts received at Newpo rt in 24 days from Cura e l states that Porto Cabello still continued closely blockadet; by the Constitutional cruiziers, while General Paez proteeta the fort held by the Revolutionary generals Balriche a° Caravano. Extract of letters from St. Au g ustine (Florida), Feb'gri 24th :—" General Gaius has arrived at Tampa 13° Y,-d. to General Scott is now at Pic olata. The Indians are 6 "" li n o, be in the neighbourho od of Hernandez. The Ot ir° • 0 forces will not return to St. Augustine until the ea° l „,, a tt is finished. We are now in the midst of scenes of H ee nan' savage savage depredations. The plantations of General kl e ; - nt, dez has been laid waste, and many places have been burnt' and for some distance south of us. The men are ill 00 cellent health and spirits ; but we are sometimes Pui.uotts hard allowance : on our last day's march we had bu' biscuit each, but thank God we have n ow plentY." norl ' ST. AUGUSTINE, FEB. 25 . — T he Indians are a - d coming over to the Whites in s mall parties of te n ai a a ; twelve at a time. The rumour that Powell is dcad i s ra te g ing ground. The whole force now i n Florida may he,jetr• at about 3,000 men, volunteers and all. The Irish teers are in good health." O rr We have but few arrivals this morni n g , and of n ° 01 tance. This day being Good Friday, it is a close 13° in the City, at all the public offices and p l a ces of resort' -.. THE MARKETS—(THIS MARKETS—(THIS PA-1(). ..0 SMITHFIELI The supply to this day's market dull, at the following ) MARKET• was moderate, and the pd. O TO SINK TU OP tO6 4 6 510 I n f er ior Sheep ditto .••••' ; ........ 6 S e cond quality dit g Coarso.woolled &ay..... 510 0 Southdown Webers ••• 3 6 4, L a rge Hogs ............, .. 1 u / n ... , 4 S ma ll Porkers ......... 7, e Quarter old Pigs ,eac, . ns. Bd. to 7s. 4d. 'Mt/CS sTATICINISI• I Calves. 150 PRICES PER STONE OF 8L s. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto "I 0 3 8 Prime large Oxen 4 0 4'. '2 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 6 5 0 Prime small ditto 5 2 5 Slckling Calves each ...12 u 30 0I Lamb urrLY, AS PER CL Sheep. 1,150 Boasts. 40.) lENHAL , the Carcas+• cl• NEIVGATE AND LEA cl.t e o ' 1 1 1 At per stone, 13 . 04 8 " 5 6 . s. d. to s d Beef, inferior - middling ...... 1 6 0 3 2 8 0 .... 6 -- prime large - prime ........ 5 ~. b ... is -- prime smia. .... 3 8 310 Perk, large ................ 4 , Veal Lamb 6s. 7,1.:t0 75 . . 4d. A_____lutton, minifdedriloitrii ........ ..g: 49 0 0 4 4 li . t ioo ;do,. oer ----------- tou t NEWSPAPER DUTY.—The friends to : o f .", - 0) of the Stamp Duty should remember that a disceoaot ll cent. on one penny, is not the same thing the redodistitt hi per cent. on fourpence, consequently that not amount to a clear threepence on each stamp ; er, the P o or the present plan of the Chancellor of the Excheriti f e ure„ t ies of the sevenpenny newspaper cannot be reduced- Woaperuhlogo must be also reduced, or the stamp duty which is the essential object to be attained. The threer..fart"bie• or a halfpenny. Free postage is every waY i o n i bis la o lr We recommend those who have any doubts . ',l it, jtist i P 5 50 point, to read a clever pamphlet by Mr. C. Knight, e n d, se t at dispeesa oar lished, in which the question is mast elaboratelif r 0 t)"' think, unanswerably argued.—Kent Herald. „ n 0, i pie' FIRE AT BOWIIILL.—On the afterno-,00, of ie rf day, a fire broke out at Bowhill, the seat of the v w ore f o b ,i at threatening appearance, and as the wind cleugh, in Selkirkshire. At One time the fire 1 00 W the time, it was feared the whole square of ele sow/0141A wa s blo oe , if es . have been consumed. By the strenuous and P e ipe rati e "e ertions of the domestics, and those whom the and 7 60 eoli ci e drawn together from the neighbourhood, the f ir-e nate cb i iil s° °i 'l to that part of the building in which it had er'g i W extent of the damage, it is estimated, will not - Jell in. The fire is ascertained to have been caused bf therigiod if a beam of wood which was built into a chire eeY gfieg hp tended only for the vent of a heated air stove. w ss t be set recent alterations, however, the flue of the latoltqcb tb, to th. into th same vent—by the inrease heat of voi l a i c atea was se e on fire, and the flames were d thus c oralau fo l ' lowing roof of the building. —Ayr °butter. ,L, t ...,11 he OA Mr. O'CONNELL's VISIT TO H UL L ac eP t "..."o l° 0- invitation of the men of Hull : re pathY . . co ude ei ro ie 1 1 in ° to 55 P g e l passage is found in the Libe,r,ator'slettevritatio is endearing cherished b g y r o m o n o d u , p o n It proanother,ves y a o n o d r , s Perm t le for the_ o tho and loved land of my birth. It proves that Y . 0 : 5 o f t ios et bo o system of monopoly, bigotry, and every sP c , l ,,d,aa ci / 0° which Ireland has for six centuries been reachedaftlielu yee'ioistilca little of the details of that misrule has the adre. viol : which 1 s o° oev little do you know of those periods in vi- - lai ves_ c idre _ ti s tion of the laws was a greater curse than evee,es a,„ r al• could possibly be ; when bigotted and partial elutedP 7 o or partizan juries, and bad their wicked decrees ea e ate . 41 11! , ....,, s a f „,ror . c p sheriffs ; when the criminal on the benca " (1 w en r o f c!_ e. , miscreant than the criminal in the dock ;',_ me the „ a rtF, life, and liberty were disposed 04 not on „T ic ; o f tb_ e a r pittr:t case, but in relation to the creed or the poll a w ise a P tw eezi r ot Those days are gone, or fast going bye, an' tic government( acting with strict parties, are beginning.to consolidate a . . 0 p ro • f freedom 0 empire into one combined union o inaertpiaairittls :festplicisriff'